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Vail, Aaron (1796-1878)
Non-career appointee
1832 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, United Kingdom
1832 Chargé d'Affaires, United Kingdom
1838 Chief Clerk
1840 Chargé d'Affaires, Spain

Vaky, Viron Peter (1925- )
Foreign Service officer
1972 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Costa Rica
1973 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia
1976 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Venezuela
1978 Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs

Valdez, Abelardo Lopez (1942- )
Non-career appointee
1979 Chief of Protocol

Van Alen, James J. (1846-1923)
Non-career appointee
1893 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy]

Van Alen, John Trumbull (?-?)
Non-career appointee
1849 Chargé d'Affaires, Ecuador

Van Buren, Martin (1782-1862)
Non-career appointee
1829 Secretary of State
1831 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, United Kingdom

van Dyke, Henry (1852-1933)
Non-career appointee
1913 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Netherlands and Luxembourg

Van Gorkom, Jerome W. (1917- )
Non-career appointee
1982 Under Secretary for Management

Van Hollen, Christopher (1922- )
Foreign Service officer
1972 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Sri Lanka and Maldives

Van Ness, Cornelius Peter (1782-1852)
Non-career appointee
1829 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Spain

Van Valkenburgh Robert Bruce (1821-1888)
Non-career appointee
1866 Minister Resident, Japan

Vance, Cyrus Roberts (1917-2002 )
Non-career appointee
1977 Secretary of State

Vance, Sheldon Baird (1917-1995)
Foreign Service officer
1967 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chad
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Congo

Vanden Heuvel, William J. (1935- )
Non-career appointee
1977 Representative, United Nations European Office, Geneva

Vass, Laurence Coolidge (1909- )
Foreign Service officer
1963 Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, Kenya

Vaughn, Jack Hood (1920- )
Non-career appointee
1964 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Panama
1965 Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs
1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Colombia

Veliotes, Nicholas Alexander (1928- )
Foreign Service officer
1978 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan
1981 Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
1983 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Egypt

Venable, William Edward (1804-1857)
Non-career appointee
1857 [Minister Resident, Guatemala]

Vershbow, Alexander Russel (1952- )
Foreign Service officer
1997 Representative, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Russia

Vest, George Southall (1918- )
Foreign Service officer
1974 Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs
1977 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Pakistan]
1977 Assistant Secretary for European Affairs
1981 European Communities, Brussels
1985 Director General of the Foreign Service
1987 Career Ambassador

Viets, Richard Noyes (1930- )
Foreign Service officer
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tanzania
1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Jordan
1987 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Portugal]

Villard, Henry Serrano (1900-1996)
Foreign Service officer
1952 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Libya
1958 Representative, United Nations European Office, Geneva
1960 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Federation of Mali]
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Senegal
1960 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mauritania

Vincent, John Carter (1900-1972)
Foreign Service officer
1947 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Switzerland
1951 DiplAgent and Consul General, Morocco

Vine, Richard David (1925- )
Foreign Service officer
1979 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Switzerland
1982 Director, Bureau of Refugee Programs

Vogelgesang, Sandra Louise (1942- )
Foreign Service officer
1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Nepal

Volpe, John Anthony (1908- )
Non-career appointee
1973 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Italy

Von Damm, Helene A. (1938- )
Non-career appointee
1983 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Austria

Vopicka, Charles Joseph (1857-1935)
Non-career appointee
1913 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria

Vreeland, Frederick (1927- )
Non-career appointee
1990 [Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Burma (Myanmar)]
1991 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Morocco

Vroom, Peter Dumont (1791-1873)
Non-career appointee
1853 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Prussia


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